Thanks Leo. That was a very quick response. I also new to the mailing
list. I decided not to give up so quickly on Linux this time.
I get the following when running yum install kernel-headers.
[root@localhost linux]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6xen #1 SMP Fri Dec 15 18:20:31
EST 2006 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost linux]# yum install kernel-headers
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.6 MB 00:07
################################################## 5133/5133
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 363 kB 00:01
################################################## 1126/1126
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root@localhost linux]#
From: Leo <sdl.web@xxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Fedore 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6xen header files?
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:14:20 +0000
* Jacques Butcher (2006-12-22 03:57 +0200) said:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I new to Fedora - or Linux for that matter. I trying to configure
> VMware tools onto my new Fedora installation but itś looking
> for the kernel header files which I can seem to find anywhere on the
> DVD I downloaded from redhat or the net. When I type uname -r it
> reports my kernel level as 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6xen. VMware tools
> installed fine and I now trygint to run the vmware-config-tools.pl
> scrips which are lloking for these kernel source files.
>
> Wany help will be greatly appreciated.
yum install kernel-headers
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